I am aware of the meaning of "::". Is this a design decision or an implementation constraint? My intuition, obviously wrong here, is that link, being a special kind of object, should have priority over what amounts to a formatting command.
Thanks. --Steve On Mon, May 3, 2021, at 08:59, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > Hello, > > Bastien <b...@gnu.org> writes: > > > Hi Steven, > > > > "Steven Bagley" <stevenbag...@fastmail.fm> writes: > > > >> In emacs -Q: > >> > >> 1. M-x org-mode > >> 2. insert the following line in the buffer (created by > >> org-mac-grab-link) > >> > >> - [[https://rgoswami.me/posts/org-note-workflow/][An Orgmode Note > >> Workflow :: Rohit Goswami Reflections]] > >> > >> 3. You can't follow the link using mouse-left because of the "::" in > >> the link, which makes that line into an org "description list > >> item". The message is "No link found". > > > > Confirmed, thanks for the reproducible recipe. > > An item bullet followed by two colons is a special syntax in Org. It has > precedence over the link. > > Besides saying "don't do that", the usual trick is to insert a zero > width space between the two colons. > > Regards, > -- > Nicolas Goaziou >
